TENNIS MOVE
Hard-Court Cup Ties (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Davis Cup teams might be forced to play future ties on hard courts if a proposal by Czechoslovakia at the Davis Cup Nations’ annual meeting on July 6 is successful. The Czechs intend to propose that Davis Cup ties should be played only on a natural or artificial gritty material.
Grass could be used in the ties only by mutual agreement between the two teams. The challenge round would be played on a loose hardcourt surface unless the cup holder nominated grass. It could be played on another surface if both teams agreed. “We will oppose this strenuously,” the secretary of the Davis Cup Nations, Mr B. Reay, said in London. “The Czech move is an effort to have the cup ties played on one surface throughout, but this would be a retrograde step.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31366, 11 May 1967, Page 15
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